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Belfast United F.C.
Belfast United Football Club is a former Irish Association football, football club which played competitive football during the First World War. History The Irish League (Northern Ireland), Irish League went into abeyance after the 1914–15 Irish League, 1914–15 season, owing to the First World War. In order to keep the game going, five of the Belfast clubs agreed to form an unofficial continuation, the Belfast & District League; one club, Belfast Celtic F.C., Belfast Celtic, refused to join, on the basis that the competition was to be on a professional rather than an amateur basis. With an uneven number of clubs, one side would be without a game each weekend, which provided the impetus for the formation of a new club, Belfast United, under the management of Jimmie Magowan, Belfast Celtic's coach. The club's first game was a 1–1 draw at Distillery F.C., Distillery on 18 September 1915. Despite the alleged interest in the club, it did not attract fans, given the existin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
